Mai Der Vang

Mai Der Vang is a Hmong American poet.

Vang's parents resettled in the United States in 1981 as Hmong refugees fleeing Laos.

She graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in English, and from Columbia University with an MFA in Creative Writing-Poetry.

[1] Her book, Afterland, won the 2016 Walt Whitman Award selected by Carolyn Forche.

Vang's book Yellow Rain was finalist for the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.